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Hunter Valley · Mining & the mines
73 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 3 of 4
Sitt[?]ng and writing this letter, I have the pleasure of seeing a large rush in full operation in front of my own door. Several attempts have been made to find payable gold in the gully which has its source at the saw pit…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →How long ago is it since we read or heard of these diggings? Have they become extinct, or are their trumpeters dead, or taken prisoners; or have they migrated to Kiandra, with peripatetic Andrew Kay…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Herald, in its home summary for the July mail' publishes a return of the receipts of gold in Sydney since the first discoveries of the Western Gold Fields, in the early part of 1851, to the end ef the first six months of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The half-yearly general meeting of the shareholders of this Company was held yesterday, at their office, in the Exchange. Mr. C. Kemp, M.L.A., took the chair. The CHAIRMAN, having read the advertisement…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →I fear that the rush to Mount Jones Gully, which I reported in my last, is not to add much to the wealth of the Rocky. About twenty shafts have been bottomed, and the gold was found almost in all of them. It was not…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following valuable paper was read last night at the meeting of the Philosophical Society of New South Wales, by Mr. Miller, a gentleman connected with the Sydney Mint. It disoloses two infallible means of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Last Thursday evening several peals of distant thunder were heard on the Rocky, and for several hours the flashes of lightning were very vivid. During the night slight showers of rain f[?]ll, and continued at intervale…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →During last week we were favoured with several showers of rain, which, though not sufficient for sluicing, yet filled the small waterholes for prospecting purposes. I am happy to say that there is every likelihood of Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →I have just come to the conclusion that the rain-spitting weather of last week completely exhausted the clouds of their super-abundant moisture, as now we are favoured with most delightful genial spring days and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The weather continues as pleasant by day as at the date of my last, though the evenings are still chilly. In mining matters, I may mention that Messrs. Francis and Leece have commenced a tunnel into Mount…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →During the past week we have had warm days and cold days, wet days and ludeseribable days, with abundance of moon[?] and an occasional dash of biting, cold, hear frosts towards the morning…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →TABLE LAND, FAIRFIELD DIGGINGS.—August 1, 1860. —For your in[?]ormation 1 beg to apprise yon that Mr. Emmott, our Gold Commissioner, has instructions that the Escort, which leaves here on Tuesday next, is the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The re-issue, in a convenient form, of the official reports of the Rev. W. B. Clarke on the Southern Goldfields of New South Wales, is very opportune. Whether the sanguine anticipations of some, or the forebodings of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Deputy Master of the Mint and Professor Smith, having completed their tour through the Southern Gold Fields of this colony, have sent in their report, which has since been published in the daily papers…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The changeabieness of the weather is one of our greatest complaints. High howling winds, which blow as if they would blow their last; occasional dashing, drifting mist and rain; dark, lea[?]n skies; and a cold…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →About ten days ago a rush on a small scale set in at the top of Tipperary Gully, which I scarcely though worthy of chronicling in my last, as the majority of those who commedced sinking jibbed as soon as they…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →One of the latest improvements in mining is the introduction of the rock [?]ce. The hydraulic power well diredced turns down and washes off the [?]uriferous earth with all the power and effect of natural forces directed by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On this day week, as if to redeem the promise of the previous evening, the rain came down in good earnest, causing those miners who, during the long interval of dry weather, had accumulated headings, for the purpose of sluicing, to wear a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The following is the bill to abolish the duty on gold, as it passed through the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday:- Be it enacted by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →IT seems difficult to understand what made the Ministry ask for the suspension of the standing orders, to enable the Gold Duty Repeal Bill to be passed through all its stages in the Assembly…
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